skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's targeted to startups who want to do costs savings. As they'll probably retain them when they grow, the pricing goes 180 times more expensive for the next plan. It's still a lot cheaper than Github, though.
basically a direct mapping of CLI commands straight into UI elements

That may be some of the reason that I like it. I am able to do a lot of the things that I could do from the command line, but with a visual interface to help me visualize what's going on.

For example, when I'm doing a commit, I can click on each file that's been modified and see the diff for that file right on the side. I can then stage all or just parts of the changes. So if I have some debug lines, I can stage the file and then unstage the debug logging so it doesn't get committed.

There's just a lot of little things like that that you CAN do with the git command line yourself, but it wraps up in a way that's easier to consume.

I'd have to take more time than I have now to write up a full review of what I like about it compared to other GUIs.
You shouldn't need to-- you can load a PDF or ePub into iBooks straight from Safari or email.
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It seems really unlikely that any of these leaks has been due to a security flaw in the operating system. I'd think that even in this scheme if an admin account or authentication process is compromised, then the attacker's going to have access to both password stores.
The Humble stuff is largely from a certain clique of writers, a little monoculture in a way. I like the stuff, but I'd also like to see a little more diversity. Even if it's all contemporary sci-fi there's a lot more to choose from than the small group represented here.
Useful app and a good idea, but if I could pick phrases by saying them (or keywords), it will make this a super useful app and a brilliant idea.

(edit) I've been using a Google Translate-based contraption to do what this app does, and the most annoying and awkward part is that pause in the conversation when you have to type stuff into the phone. You get rid of this pause, you got yourself an exceptionally useful product.
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The question is, did Curiosity remember to pack a screwdriver?
Hour by hour, day after day, I do this. Always searching for what's wrong with what I'm creating, rarely thinking about what's good about it. It's a negative reinforcement feedback loop.

"Dude, you're so lucky to be a master sculptor. Always hanging out with famous models and actors who want nothing more than to strip for you. Your works will be celebrated for more than two thousand years. I wish I could do that."

"Actually being a sculptor is making me pretty miserable."

"Woah, dude. What do you mean?"

"Hour by hour, day after day, I do this. Always searching for pieces of stone that don't belong, always trying to remove the elements that aren't part of my work, rather than being able to focus on the stone that remains. I can never truly build anything, only erode. It's a negative reinforcement feedback loop. I think I'll try watercolors next."
I'm particularly amused when American regulators try to claim that one should not purchase drugs from Canada, because their safety can't be verified. Really.

Every rich nation has a complex web of mercantilist measures in place, for sure.
ASk HN: can youtube be considered a file sharing service now?
I'm finding more and more people on youtube are posting full length albums to their accounts for people to stream and listen to. I know there are a ton of applications which make it easy to convert these to virtually any audio format. With this in mind, can they be considered a music/file sharing service since its so easy for users to illegally download music from their site?
They look different but what matters is the same.

Cooperative vs. preemptive scheduling is only about whether you trust the coroutines to do the right thing. Erlang cares about recovering from errors so it must be preemptive. Node.js trusts the programmer so it uses a much simpler cooperative scheduler. This does not change the concurrency model though, only the assumptions of the environment.

Erlang is (in my opinion at least) better than node.js, and also has the advantage being able to enforce no-shared-memory between actors, so it automatically distributes erlang processes across all your cpu cores. Node.js requires that you spawn child processes yourself if you wish to take advantage of multiple cores, but ones they're spawned the way you handle concurrency doesn't change.

I don't know about you, but mailboxes and callbacks look pretty close to the same thing to me. In both, your code waits for an event to happen and then reacts to that event, potentially sending off more events. In both, once you do anything that would require blocking, your coroutine lets others run while it's waiting.

The erlang model certainly has more power but they're more similar to each other than they are to anything else. The way you think is the same, although the way you write it might be a little different.
I just started a new blog and this was my first post. I would love some feedback.

Thanks in advance.
Can you spin all the drives down in a pod once the pod is full of data until a restore is needed?
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Data centers have to be designed to handle peak capacity, not average capacity. For example, if a retail business's web site couldn't handle the peak loads in the month before Christmas without degrading response time, they'd go out of business.
They should mention that on the instructions page, thanks
Does this have gob interface?
Arbitrary commit diffs have been in Github since March 2010 [1]. The Overview is exactly like what Redmine and GitLab call 'Activity' [2]. Github has Activity in a different manner, through notifications and the News Feed. These are useful features, but they are not innovative.

[1] https://github.com/blog/612-introducing-github-compare-view

[2] http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/activity
> I don't see an issue with Facebook asking you to pay to give your status a priority over everything else. Advertisers already do just that.

But Facebook already has advertising in a dozen ways, This is just another way to squeeze more money out of the system and its subscribers. And chances are it will work, because Facebook subscribers don't see that they have an alternative. That's why I posted -- it's wrong, they do. I think meaningful competition would shift power back to the subscribers where it belongs.
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> the Swiss all speak perfect Swiss, English, French and German

What do you mean by perfect Swiss? (To be honest, as a German I am inclined to classify Swiss German as its own language. Especially since we already grant Dutch to be a different language from German.)
Just hazarding a guess, but I've noticed that people who have $TEXAS tabs open tend to use tabs the way I use Instapaper -- as a means of tracking interesting content they want to remember to read at some point.
>that feel when you go from red to green.

that is such a good feel
Yeah, I've found it really depends. Shortly after I came here, I had one Swiss person say in a huff (and in perfect English!), "You've been here for three months, and you still don't speak French?" How long ago did you live in St. Gallen? These days it seems like there's a bit of anti-foreigner mentality, so I've noticed I get a warmer reception if I at least try to speak the language.
@wilto pointed out another gloriously obvious patent fail a couple weeks ago. http://heygodaddysue.me/
BitBucket has already been in business for a long time, it appears GitHub is not a fan of free private repos. In the early stages that was probably a help because your site looks more active if everyone using it is public, but these days the lack of free private repos is pretty surprising.
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Yes. I switched to Chrome for a while because of performance, and for my use cases, they are back close enough to parity.
I would also recommend Aurora, which gets newer features faster, but is much more stable than the nightly binaries.
Having a tape libarary/silo is much harder to scale vs building pods of hard drives.

Experience: I helped route and process data for the Large Hadron's CMS detector.
I found this at https://plus.google.com/111030861447662731288/posts/9xPKsM9P.... As I said there, I find it unlikely that we'll get a sane ruling from this court. The best hope is that the case will go to the Supreme Court who will get yet another opportunity to overrule the patent court.
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If the goal is to be happy and if some people find greater happiness doing 'work' while others find greater happiness devoting time to 'life', then surely there will be some people who will split their time accordingly.

Maybe it's not technically 'balance', but do you really think when someone says 'work-life balance' that they mean 50-50 split between work and life? When I hear it used it usually means 'spend less time on work and more on life', and I think hippo33's is correct: not everyone needs to (or should) spend less time doing work because that's where they may find the most happiness.
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High performance DNS software can handle well over 100k QPS on a single core on commodity hardware, but that's not an apples to apples comparison since the benchmarks I'm remembering didn't include any weighting or geo-distribution special sauce.
it is data format agnostic so you can certainly serialize using the gob package.
I noticed that too, but I do not think it is very surprising, since the percentage of Linux users who think about copy-left related issues is higher than for Windows or Mac users. ( At least this is my guess, if you just care about a free as in beer OS you can just pirate Windows.) So the percentage of Linux users who pay a 'political' price is higher than in the case of Mac or Windows.
The US has simulated freedom with the two party systems. I don't know whether elections are rigged in the US or Singapore; but to assume that US elections is fraud free is a bit naive (see recent voter registration scandals for the prelude; and follow BlackBoxVoting for the details that humans can't directly follow). If you assume the fraud magnitude is trivial, or that it cancels out, you better have a good explanation for it.

If you think you are better off, you are sorely mistaken. You're not worse off either. It's just all the same.
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Twitter is a service.
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lol, nobody gets paid to see the positive things. Everyone else at the company is also being paid to be critical and fix problems (lawyers, finance, HR, CEO, etc.).
Most people are actually quite trustworthy. And you are quite good at determining who's trustworthy as well.
Perhaps you misread the OP, but he mentioned megabyte not gigabyte. S3 costs $.125 per GB for the first TB, so the math would be: (.125/1024)(10101010*10) which comes out to $12.21, or pretty darn close.
I reckon it depends on the size of the company you work for too. Obviously there will be always some errors and problems but there is also quite a lot of thinking and creative work to be done. Especially if the team is not massive and you take part in decision making process. Not exactly the "turn this coffee into code" type of job.

My friend working in a oil industry/software company (quite big) told me once - here you only get noticed when you manage to screw up something.
>6. Watch the test pass
7. Send it to QA.
8. Everything is wrong and this isn't what they asked for (it is but that's not what they MEANT)
9. Goto 3
Oh, they made an illustration for "hungry author" too: http://cdn.humblebundle.com/1/hbb1/sad_author.jpg
These are good points. However, as a user of Dropbox I just don't care if they encrypt my data or not. If I back up anything sensitive, I encrypt it myself. For stuff that's not that private (e.g. pictures that I've shared) I assume that anyone at Dropbox could look at them.
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It's an old story that probably pre-dates programming and I've seen it several times in different places. I have no idea what the actual origin is. I just searched the web for "I'm building a cathedral" and used the wording I found here:

http://bestpracticesforbusiness.com/2010/05/07/purpose-in-mo...
Oh, FFS. The important part of an image being a tiny portion at the very bottom edge is a tremendously rare edge case.
It's very green... but looks good guys!
People are dogmatic about a variety of activities being the best way to live.

I'm not convinced anyone but two people here feel that "balance" is now used to also mean single minded focus.
Maybe you could make it detect when the device is turned upside down, and display a 180º rotated interface in the conversation partner's language? So the interaction would be input phrase->turn phone upside down->partner enters phrase?
We are working on updating our instructions in favor of a direct download approach, which seems to be way better. Sorry about the iTunes favoritism!

-Jeff from Humble Bundle
Irony: Proclaiming 'HTTPS everywhere' when the webpage it's on doesn't use HTTPS.
love what these guys are up to, but that's probably because I'm a sucker for email automation / productivity tools (i built NudgeMail to solve a related problem). and because they're part of FounderFuel, which I heart. :)
I was wondering about the same. It seems that YouTube is on the one hand super sensitive about certain types of content, while on the other completely ignoring very obvious issues. I would argue that at least 50% of videos with a length of 30 minutes or more are in some form either a tv or movie rips.
Agreed, a comparison would be helpful for highlighting the tradeoffs behind the choices we made.

We do talk about the evolution of our infrastructure and the genesis of NSQ in our blog post, http://word.bitly.com/post/33232969144/nsq.
You're certainly able to pay for BitBucket, it's just that they don't require you to pay until you reach a team of 6 people. You can pay $10 a month to BitBucket and be able to have a team of 10 if you'd like, even if it's just yourself.
Mantaphrase uses large readable text that can be read from a good distance away. That means you can show your device to another person without having to hand it over!
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Yes! This is something that we're really excited about, and is definitely on our pipeline.
Did you ask him for Github's source code?
You put it much better than I could.
> As an American, this disturbs me to no end.
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> Am I missing something?

The fact that this surprises you means you've probably missed the hundreds of other such laws that are on the books, and for which you are paying daily (and dearly) without even realizing.
"It goes without saying that all pages shown to logged-in users should be served over HTTPS"

You're not logged on to that page, it's a blog. There's nothing to gain by serving it over https.
One line down -

>It goes without saying that all pages shown to logged-in users should be served over HTTPS
He meant server-side JS was relatively non-existent before node.js, he even listed alternate server-side JS impls that did use server-side JS, nothing of which is anywhere close to the phenomenon that node.js is now.
> 3. Syncing on Chrome is as straightforward as it should be and they also encrypt data.

Firefox Sync is also straightforward (and syncs with Firefox for Android as well) and is also encrypted.
Looks great! I've connected to Box! Lovin this!
Eval sure, but the way that type coercion works in Javascript is an error. Boxing in Javascript is an error. You can figure them out, you can code around them, but they are bad and can't be justified. All coercion isn't bad, but some is.

Have you seen code that uses .valueOf() for anything good or useful? new String()?
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Maybe he thought "HTTPS Everywhere Except In Places That Obviously Don't Need It" didn't really roll of the tongue as well
I realize this is OT, but speaking as a tab hoarder, there's no justifiable reason for the behavior. And I'm not exaggerating when I use the term hoarder -- it's the same principle as hoarding physical goods, since the personal justification is always "they're important and I might need them someday". At any given moment I have 2 windows with about 30-40 tabs each. I even downloaded a chrome plugin called session buddy that lets me restore previous windows in the event of an accidental computer restart.

The unfinished reading weighs me down every day, but I keep them open anyway. Some days I get productive and read a half dozen tabs, but never anything substantial. It's an embarrassing "problem."

Awesome / useless plugin idea: an artificial time bomb that removes the tab and all traces of the website from your history after being open longer than some period of time (e.g. one week). Obviously a bookmark circumvents this dilemma, but the problem itself isn't rational to begin with.
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They don’t really, no.
Without going into religious talk, one of the things I'm interested in with the growing acceptance of religious unaffiliation is the gap left by churches/synagogues/etc.

As a decidedly non-religious person raised in a Christian household, I grew to love the sense of community and charity fostered by the organization. With the current trend of urban migration, I'm not sure what's going to replace that.
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Startup failures are a critical part of the biz (and life learning), but I'm not sure it warrants and actual event...
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With the $100M investment I now think it's probably a bad business decision for github not to get a bit more aggressive on pricing for those edge cases where bitbucket clearly wins.
You keep equating "balanced/not-balanced" with "good/bad".

What do you mean by "balance" if you don't mean the normal definition of "engages in activities/pursuits from all aspects of life"? By the normal definition of balance Elon Musk is not leading a balanced life at all, but a dedicated and focused life. This is not a value judgement, it's perfectly reasonable to make that choice.

This idea that balance is different for everyone makes me think you are using balance to mean "fulfilling" or "happy"?
That was my initial thought as well, but it wouldn't surprise me if there are layers of Amazon bureaucracy that would make that difficult.

I'd settle for a simple way to enter my Kindle's email address and have them email the mobi file right to my device.
Say what? There's no mention of zero point energy in the article, and the project simply measures the electromagnetic field emitted by a museum-piece Accutron watch. The language used is apparently meant to befuddle nontechnical readers, but there's little left to the imagination in the thorough description and the complete schematic diagrams.

As an electronics engineer, it's obvious to me that the project would be much more sensitive and reliable if it used an autocorrelation detector -- a phase-coherent emitter of electromagnetic radiation and an adjacent detector -- thus eliminating the pointless Accutron watch. But that's not relevant to your claim that it's a scam, it's just badly designed.

So I have to ask, exactly how is this a scam?
It's more than just your data. The other service similar to tidy.io that recently launched managed to leak people's private AWS keys.
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Hosted repos can only be so secure. If you need absolute trust, host them on your own machines (for which GitHub and Atlassian will happily sell you tools to make doing so easier).
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This is my first Backbone.js project and I'm pretty proud of it; I'd love to hear feedback from the folks at HN!
>First, books are a special kind of products, they do not obey the same rules as commercial products, they are culture.

Following the logic that books are not "commercial products" and instead culture, then shouldn't they be free?
Then why don't we? Or, rather, can you name some groupings that provide the impulse toward community which aren't religious or quasi-religious (such as freemasonry)? The only two I can think of offhand are RPG gaming groups and the Lions Club.
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Would be cool if there was a kind of wholesale organization for books and music, so that third parties could create cool music and book stores.
Well yes, but that's precisely the problem: our career expectations have, as anyone who's done a job interview can tell you, gotten pretty extreme.

I left a bad job once, and for months interviewed in loads of places and didn't get any job. I'm fairly sure it was because I truly sucked at explaining away the bad job time and why I left without "sounding like he doesn't want to work."

There should be nothing wrong, in "True Scotsman capitalism" or "True Scotsman career development", with leaving a bad job if it just can't work out for you -- particularly when you're young, unmarried, and not in debt. But somehow there is. Every bad job is a black mark on you. If interviewers don't view it that way, you've often trained yourself to view it that way. I certainly did. Haven't quite gotten over it yet.

(Admittedly, after a few months I started finding different crowds of people and eventually got a contract position that could have become full-time if I was still looking for full-time work by then.)
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You don't get the image based on the username, the image is stored as a cookie, so it's showing you that the Yahoo you logged in to this time is the one that new your cookie details before. Even if an attack-site can read your cookie they don't know which image to pair it with (though maybe it can be taken from a local cache somehow?). The image is a per-device (or per browser?) security indication.

Details - https://protect.login.yahoo.com/login/set_pref?faq=1#faq2, it's called "yahoo sign-in seal".
Having worked with Thomas before, I know he has extraordinary attention to detail when it comes to code quality and security. I'd certainly trust my data in tidy.io.

One feature I wish services like this had is an incredibly simple way to backup a large folder to Glacier/S3 and then retrieve it just as easily. I use Dropbox for things that change on a frequent basis, and I want to use Glacier to archive everything else. Would be happy if anyone knew of such a service, but for now, I'll be using tidy.io.
I don't work with JS. Can someone explain to me how I can use it as a developer? Should I be writing code in the intermediate representation and then compile it into JS?
Are you kidding me?! Close to 700 files uploaded from my email with tags!!! Awesome!
I'm curious to know how much field testing you guys have done with this app. It looks very promising!